Research that resonates.

Schweitzer has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Bidens.

Investigations that matter.

If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Burisma?

I don't know. I don't know. Probably not. But that's, you know, I don't think that there's a lot of things that would have happened in my life that if my last name wasn't fired. The only entities, the only people that would report on this, and Peter Schweizer, who deserves a medal of freedom, in my view. This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to the

Drill Down where we relentlessly expose cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington,

D.C. Seated by my side, Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you? Well, I'm great, Peter. It seems weird

to think about it, but it's been a week, but we survived a hurricane here

in North Florida. So I'm excited to no longer be checking the radar and like worrying which way is it

going to go. And you try to like infer so much information from this one small line on a graphic on

your phone. That's exactly. And your fate is in the hands of which direction that little dot is going to end up going.

It's interesting. You mentioned that we're going to talk about natural disasters today and the tragedy out in Maui and really discuss whether it actually was just a natural disaster or was it a manmade policy disaster.

But before we get to that, I have a question to ask you.

Now, I know I can imagine, I didn't know you when you were young, but I imagine you were

a pretty precocious kid.

What was the best excuse you ever used when you failed to do something either for your

parents or you failed to turn your homework?

What was the best excuse you ever came up with? Yeah, I hate that how quickly the answer to this came to my mind when you asked me. I remember one time I didn't do a science fair project or like I did it totally haphazardly last minute. Right. And then I was sort of held to account for that. And I was like, well, do you know how just challenged it is to deal with this divorce? You said on the teacher. No, my parents.

Oh, my parents. Well, you know, if you guys hadn't gotten divorced, then we'd be having all these

challenges. So how can I be possibly expected to get my science fair project done, given the fact that

you've ruined my childhood. Did it work?

I think it did.

...